Bridgett Floyd loaded boxes with green, red and yellow produce as sunlight beamed through the windows at the Salvation Army.
She cracked jokes. She chatted with volunteers. She evoked the memory of her older brother George Floyd on Thursday, several miles south of the courtroom where the man charged in his killing stood trial as the world watched.
“This has already taken my mind off of what is going on [in the courtroom,] and I needed that a little bit,” Bridgett Floyd said. “I needed that a little bit. It’s been a trying, trying week. And we will get through it. We will get through it.”
After traveling from her home in Fayetteville, N.C., to seek justice for her brother, Floyd took the morning off from watching the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. Instead, she spent it giving away food at the Salvation Army food shelf on E. Lake Street.
It was the type of service George Floyd knew well: He worked as a security guard for a downtown homeless…